Last week, Elon Musk revealed the Tesla Cybertruck to the world. Since the presentation, it's developed into a meme online and has already – unofficially – been added to a bunch of different video games. Just earlier this week, a talented modder put Elon and his pickup into GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64.
While some see this nothing more than a joke, there are others out there who are a bit more serious about the Cybertruck being added to their favourite games. One fan, by the name of Nikki Luzader, has gone to the extent of opening an online petition, asking Elon to put the Cybertruck in Rocket League:
Our great and generous Elon Musk has bestowed upon us a revolutionary vehicle whose beauty, power, and elegance is unsurpassed. Now my fellow gamers, we must fight for what is most undoubtedly meant for us to play with, because lets face it, most of us will never be able to afford one. Please sign this petition and fight to put it in the hands of the man with the plan himself. He will do it for us. He will do it for the memes. He will do it because he is the one and only: Elon Musk.
Some other Rocket League players have already added the Cybertruck to the game themselves (see below), and over on social media, there are fans who have gone to the extent of contacting Elon directly – asking him to collaborate with Psyonix Studios.
Do you think the Cybertruck would be a good fit in Rocket League? What other games could you see this truck being added to? Comment down below.
[source eurogamer.net]
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be a big fan of it fading into obscurity honestly
Please do it. Please
@somebread Its the car of the future ma dude. Every vehicle being made from now on will be molded in its image, so good luck with that.
I wanna see this added in either a free update to MK8 Deluxe, Mario Kart 9, or Mario Kart Tour. Elon tried getting Nintendo to let him put Mario Kart into his vehicles, but perhaps it was destined to be the other way around.
I don't understand this idolizing of a ceo of a company. we had the same thing with richard branson in the 90s, people already forgot. we saw how that turned out.
@SonOfVon couldn't agree more
With such low polygon count, this truck will make the game run smoother.
@SonOfVon There’s a difference here.. He doesn’t actually want to be rich... he already is one of the richest men alive... he has a vision of what ‘he’ thinks the future looks like and he wants to make it. Incase you doubt that you’ll note that he put a substantial amount of his own fortune into Tesla when it was running out of money as a company. Can’t ask for more than that. Branson had / has some of that vision.. but he’s a true (good) business man in the end.. Elon musk is almost the anti-businessman... and not the best speaker either... but he wants the world to move in a certain direction and believes he has the answer. When someone has that kind of passion... AND the means to make it happen, people want to know what he can achieve. It’s a good thing to follow.
@FTL sounds like something someone blindly idolizing a CEO of a company would say
@somebread Actually if you read my comment I didn’t once say I idolised a CEO, I simply gave reasoning behind why people follow him. In addition, if someone was to follow him for the reasons I mentioned, the fact that those reasons are the intention, in itself shows that it’s not ‘blindly’ doing anything, but rather with motives which would seem perfectly acceptable.
@FTL You sound like a worm begging to be eaten.
@patbacknitro18 Nah hardly anyone ever use the Mercedes in there now after the novelty wore off. Can't imagine a truck like that having much better stats anyway.
@sweetmoon If a worm’s life begs to be eaten, as is knowledge to be spread. For those listening absorb all logic, for those ignorant be not fed.
@Riderkicker I assume you meant Mercedes? I haven’t seen any BMW’s, but if they’re there let me know and I’ll check it out.
@FTL Yeah, those. Been a while since I selected one & someone who I recently played with called them BMWs so had went with that.
The Cybertruck would not be a good fit for Rocket League because we’ve already seen what happens when the vehicle collides with even diminutive metal balls and it ain’t pretty.
@Riderkicker Honestly it was the only car I used on the WiiU
@FTL Try defending his motives to his employees he keeps from unionizing in a state where unions are allowed or to the diver who saved the soccer team in Thailand that he accused of being a pedophile.
SpaceX(musk's company) made the vertical landing rocket viable for use, a huge leap for the future of spaceflight, technologically and for reducing the cost of spaceflight.
He's helping push the auto industry & power industry toward renewable power.
He is a flawed human, but these are big deals.
The cybertruck's shape looks like a great hitbox shape for Rocket League. So, not a bad idea.
@NoTinderLife Ha. Run smoother : )
Yeah great idea, put the ugliest designed truck ever made that looks like every 5 year olds first car drawing in a game.
I’d rather see Elon’s actual rockets strapped to a car than this abomination.
@Woomy_NNYes Did Musk invent it? Or did his team of engineers and contractors at SpaceX invent it and he just threw money at them.
What on earth is the interest in this f'ugly car. Can someone explain what is so special about it? – because it isn't it's looks – its a terrible design for an angular car. Look at a Delorean's or Lamborgini's or BMW M1 or Lotus Esprit Turbo and many more ... for excellent examples of boxy designs. Even a Volvo looks better than this insult to generations of design sensibilities. I'm going to say it if nobody else does. This Cyber car is absolutely abysmal design at work. I think it only warrants notice because so many car's have followed the same wind-tunnel design approach for too long – and not because it's good.
@AnnoyingFrenzy Valid question. But it didn't come from another company. Meanwhile, spaceflight tech has been stale for decades. NASA has been slashed over and over since we went to the moon. Since SpaceX, a startup company, achieved these things, it adds to the impressiveness. The Space Shuttle was 1970s tech, by the way. And the military has been repurposing missiles from the nuclear arms race to put geosynchronous sattellites up (GPS). So, that's 30-40 years without new spaceflight tech. We're currently still paying the Russia to let US astronauts ride in Russian rockets to the space station.
@Woomy_NNYes I personally don't care what company made it, I just cringe at people giving credit to individuals (that probably had very little to do in the design and manufacture of it) for the accomplishments of entire teams. To bring this to video games, I also don't give credit to Sakurai for Smash Ultimate when it is clear that he had entire teams developing the game or Hideo Kojima all the credit for Metal Gear.
@AnnoyingFrenzy I get that. It's like the singer of a group getting all the credit. Yeah, I was real hesitant to say anything, but that's why I didn't tag people.
@Woomy_NNYes Yeah, especially when the singer doesn't even write the song! They just buy it and never credit the actual writer.
Seems like a no brainer for both sides.
that 4-wheeled low-poly...THING was made to be in video games.
Tesla has become the Fortnite of the car industry to me. It's nowhere near as bad as haters make it out to be, but it's mediocre at best, and has the WORST fans who won't stop giving them free publicity no matter how much of a tool their CEO/poster boy is.
Didn’t yall hear? It’s already going to be in the next Star Fox!
@NIN10DOXD Why on earth would I need to defend what another person does.. your comment sounds very political. I like progress. His companies are making great progress, and I think that’s a good thing to keep an eye on.
@FTL How is anything I said political?
Asking me to defend some implied ‘dubious actions’ of a public figure, sounds very political. If you don’t think so, that’s fine - but one way or another it’s far off track from what I was saying. There’s a difference between thinking everything a person does is perfect, and simply wanting to keep an eye on what his companies or he is doing to affect our tech / auto / space progress due to his actions in those specific areas.
Is that a reference to Elon Musk working on Rocket Jockey?
I don't care as much for a Rocket League integration. But I really want to see this in Horizon Chase!
@somebread ok boomer
Why Rocket league, Mario Kart would reach its online petition goal in 15 minutes already
When I see this, I think DeLorean. Except the DeLorean was only cool because Christopher Lloyd made it cool. Except even that couldn't save its disastrous sales numbers.
@SonOfVon What Musk and Branson have in common is both are filthy rich, unabashedly experimental, and utterly bat-stuff crazy.
@FTL I kind of like Musk, personally. I've agreed with some of the things he has said, and to a degree his "cause" of keeping the future "human" versus what the rest of tech seems to be obsessed with is replacing humanity. OTOH there's things like this. Where his vision of the "future" always appears to assume that everybody as a cool million sitting in the bank. I see a lot of Teslas where I am. The windows should come with decals: "Warning: D-Bag aboard." The car should come with free aviators and popped collar leather jackets that don't even have button holes for the top 5 buttons.
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